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Simão Botelho was a young man from Viseu with a conflicting and problematic character. One day he falls madly in love and maintains a secret romance with Teresa de Albuquerque, daughter of an enemy of his father, radically changing his attitude. Upon learning of the liaison, Tadeu de Albuquerque promises his daughter's hand to his nephew Baltazar Coutinho. Refusing outright, Teresa is sent to a convent, where she remains cloistered. Simão returns from Coimbra, where he was completing his studies, and settles in the house of João da Cruz. His daughter, Mariana, immediately falls in love with Simão. In a failed attempt to meet Teresa at the convent, Simão ends up shooting his rival Baltazar and is sentenced to prison. The love triangle develops through the correspondence between Simão and Teresa and the daily visits of Mariana. Simão is sentenced to exile in India, and on the day of his departure, this complicated romance ends in the most tragic way. Based on the real story of an uncle of the author Camilo Castelo Branco, this is his most famous novel.